Tra từ go back - Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

go back phrasal verb [ goes back going back went back gone back gone back ]

RETURN

1. <E > to return
• That restaurant was terrible - I'm never going back there again.
• I'll have to go back for my umbrella.
• Do you think you'll ever go back to London?
• When do you go back to school?
• Let's go back to the beginning and start again.
• We can always go back to the original plan if necessary.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Returning to a place

• After six months of chopping and changing, we've decided to go back to our old system.
• We realized we had taken the wrong road and had to go back.
• "I'm never going back to him, " she said, setting her jaw firmly.
• Do you ever go back to any of our old stamping grounds?
• I'll just turn the car round and go back the way we've come.
2. to be returned
• When are these library books due to go back?
• That TV will have to go back to the shop - it hasn't worked properly ever since I bought it.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Swellings and lumps

ORIGIN
3. to have existed since a time in the past
• Their relationship goes back to when they were at university together.
• Our house goes back to (= has existed since) the 18th century.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Existing and being ↑Continue and last
Main entry: go_{phrasal verb}